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  1. Title: Plan topographique du Detroit et des Eaux qui forment la jonction du Lac Erie avec le Lac St. Claire

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    Summary: 1 map ; 95 x 68 cm Includes list of property owners in Detroit and over the Canadian border, views from river of Fort du Detroit and Fore Erie, and a descriptive text by C.M. Burton. "Drawn from a Copy in the "Burton Collection" at Detroit, Michigan."

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  2. Title: Saint-Cloud, France, 1744 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan de St. Cloud : leve et dedie a S.A.S. Monseigneur de le Duc de Charte, par les Srs. Parent Ing.rs du Roi ; M. A. Fourneau scrip.; M Marvye sculp. It was published by imprimerie de Charbonnier rue S. Jacques au Chariot d'or in 1744. Scale [ca. 1:5,263]. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the European Datum 1950, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 31N projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map.This map shows features such as roads, drainage, built-up areas and selected buildings, ground cover, and more. Relief is shown by hachures.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from The Harvard Map Collection as part of the Imaging the Urban Environment project. Maps selected for this project represent major urban areas and cities of the world, at various time periods. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features at a large scale. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  3. Title: Kurdufan Region, Sudan, 1880 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carta originale della Spedizione Borghese-Matteucci : nel Kordofan e Dar For secondo i rilievi del sottotenente A.M. Massari e le Esplorazioni anteriori, costrutta e disegnata da Guido Cora. It was published by Istituto Geografico Guido Cora in 1881. This dataset is georeferenced for the map covering the Kurdufan region, Sudan. Scale 1:3,000,000. Map in Italian.The original map contains multiple maps on one sheet. Because the map images are non-contiguous and possibly at differing scales, each map image was georeferenced separately. Please see the 'cross references' section for other maps on this sheet.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Africa Lambert Conformal Conic' projection. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as exploration routes of Giovanni Borghese, Pellegrino Matteucci, and A.M. Massari (with dates of locations), drainage, cities, towns and villages, territorial boundaries, and more. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  4. Title: Darfur Region, Sudan, 1880 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carta originale della Spedizione Borghese-Matteucci : nel Kordofan e Dar For secondo i rilievi del sottotenente A.M. Massari e le Esplorazioni anteriori, costrutta e disegnata da Guido Cora. It was published by Istituto Geografico Guido Cora in 1881. This dataset is georeferenced for the map covering the Darfur region, Sudan. Scale 1:3,000,000. Map in Italian.The original map contains multiple maps on one sheet. Because the map images are non-contiguous and possibly at differing scales, each map image was georeferenced separately. Please see the 'cross references' section for other maps on this sheet.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the 'Africa Lambert Conformal Conic' projection. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as exploration routes of Giovanni Borghese, Pellegrino Matteucci, and A.M. Massari (with dates of locations), drainage, cities, towns and villages, territorial boundaries, and more. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

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  5. Title: Manchester, New Hampshire, 1850 (Raster Image)

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    Summary: This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the city of Manchester, surveyed and drawn by A.M. Chapin ; engraved by G.W. Boynton. It was published in 1850. Scale [ca. 1:2,500]. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the New Hampshire State Plane Coordinate System (Feet) (FIPS 2800). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, drainage, streets, buildings (including dwellings, schools, churches, industry and mill locations, etc.), parks, and more. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of New England from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

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  6. Title: A new map of Cairo

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    Summary: Map shows location of mosques, churches, and hospitals. Some buildings are shown pictorially. "Published by Cairo Drafting Office, Cairo, U.A.R. 1966." "NATO" printed in bottom left corner.

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  7. Title: A new map of Cairo

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    Summary: Relief shown by form lines. Map shows location of mosques, churches, and hospitals. Some buildings are shown pictorially. "Published by Cairo Drafting Office, Cairo, U.A.R. 1964."

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  8. Title: Carte régionale no. 2 de la province de Québec : comprenant des comtés de St. Maurice, Maskinonge, Berthier, Joliette ... Argenteuil et Ottawa

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    Summary: Shows lots and concession nos.; townships; railways. sheet 88 x 122 Centimeters Scale 1:253,440 General Map Collection

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  9. Title: Carte régionale no. 6 de la province du Québec : comprenant les comtés de Témiscouata, Kamouraska, L'Islet, Montmagny, Bellechasse, Lévis, et partie de ceux de Beauce, Lotbiniére, et Mégantic

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    Summary: Oriented with north to upper right.; Shows roads, railroads, townships, and survey grid. 80 x 115 centimeters Scale approximately 1:250,000 General Map Collection

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  10. Title: Map of part of the north west territory, including the Province of Manitoba : exhibiting the several tracts of country ceded by the Indian treaties 1,2,3,4,5, and 6

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    Summary: Indian tribes named; Indian reservations.; To accompany: The report of the Minister of the Interior, Jan. 1877. 44 x 62 centimeters Scale approximately 1:3,500,000 General Map Collection

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  11. Title: A map of England & Wales : divided into counties, parlimentary divisions, & dioceses; shewing the principal roads, railways, rivers, & canals and the seats of the nobility and gentry; with the distance of each town from the general post office of London

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:316,800]. 1 in. = 5 mi. (W 5°--E 2°N 56°--N 50°). Relief shown by hachures. Projected from the triangulation for the survey made under the direction of the honorable the Board of Ordnance, on a scale of five miles to an inch, and corrected to the present time. Illustration: View of the general post office London / drawn by T. Allom, engraved by H. Griffiths. Continuation inset: Scilly Islands. Includes table of distances by sea, and chart of dioceses with coats of arms. Originally published in 1 sheet (?). color, dissected, mounted on cloth, and bound in 4 volumes ; 202 x 167 cm.; sheet Scale [1:316,800]. 1 inch = 5 miles General Map Collection

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  12. Title: Maps of Utah Territory, Great Salt Lake valley and Salt Lake City : with portrait and autograph of Brigham Young

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    Summary: Cover title.; Consists of three hand-colored maps and portrait of Brigham Young, all within ruled border.; Each map has separate copyright notice (copyrighted by B.A.M. Froiseth).; "Am. Photo-Lithographic Co., N.Y. (Osborne's Process)." on sheet 44 x 36 centimeters, folded in cover Scales vary. General Map Collection

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  13. Title: Map of Roseau County, Minnesota

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale [1:144,000] (W 96°25'--W 95°04'--N 49°03'--N 48°29'). Shows streams, ditches, railroads, schools, churches, post offices, and creameries. "Copyright 1911 by John P. Ivers, Roseau, Minn." 36 x 66 centimeters Scale [1:144,000] Minnesota County Maps, Plat Books, and Atlases

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  14. Title: Map of the island of Ceylon : (corrected to the beginning of 1868), exhibiting the principal roads, rivers & mountains with the Colombo and Kandy Railway and the proposed extensions

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale approximately 1:515,000 Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Ancillary map: Ceylon Railway. Includes text, and dedication with ill. to Thomas B. Skinner. Affixed to verso are cover pieces advertising Stanford's series of new library maps. 95 x 65 centimeters Scale approximately 1:515,000 Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  15. Title: Map of the hill country of Ceylon showing the positions of the principal coffee estates, &c

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    Summary: Cartographic Details: Scale 1:190 080. scale of 3 miles to an in. Date is estimated. Front of cover carries imprint of Letts Son & Co.; label for Mason & Payne pasted inside cover. Dissected and laid on linen. 83 x 62 centimeters Scale 1:190 080; 3 miles to an inch Ames Library of South Asia Maps

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  16. Title: Map of the United States exhibiting the present status of knowledge relating to the areal distribution of geologic groups

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    Summary: 1 map ; 53 x 81 cm Shading indicates age of rock. "Fifth annual report plate II"

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  17. Title: Carte militaire de la France : indiquant les divisions militaires et leurs chefs-lieux, les garnisons des différens corps de l'armée, tous les établissemens de l'artillerie et du génie, les places fortes, les forts, les routes militaires, les gites d'etapes avec les distances qui les séparent, les lieux de distribution de vivre &c.

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    Summary: Inset: Corse.

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  18. Title: Plan de Paris sous Charles VII; par A.M. Perrot.

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    Summary: Includes index in upper right corner of map. Shows Paris at the time of King Charles VII. Pour servir a la lecture de l'Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne par M. de Barante. 1 map; 29 x 37 cm.

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  19. Title: Map of the state of Colorado

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    Summary: Extent: 1 map Abstract: Map of Colorado showing land grants, forest reserves, railroads, land offices, etc. Notes: Relief shown by shading. Map detached from a United States Senate document in the United States congressional serial set (Serial Set 4220 S.doc.34): Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and accompanying draft of a bill providing for an appropriation to compensate the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians for the lands of their reservation in Colorado. Scale 1:760,320 1 in. = 12 miles

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  20. Title: County map of Minnesota

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    Summary: Atlas plate 81. Date of copyright registration 1880. Longitude west from Greenwich and Washington, D.C. 14 x 11.5 inches General Minnesota Maps

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